EDLD 5363 - Week 1 Video Conference

I found this week's conference to be extremely helpful, especially in two cases. Firstly, Dr. Abernathy's clarification of the instructions and expectations were extremely welcome, especially considering I have been penalized in the past for attempting to follow unclear instructions in previous courses. Secondly, I was able to locate a partner via the conference for my week 1 assignment, which was much easier than I remember it to be when I had to put together a group this past January. One suggestion I will place in my survey at the end of this course would be to schedule different sessions for the different sections because there were a fair number of people asking questions because they hadn't taken certain courses yet or they were administration students who had never worked with some of this technology like Google Docs.

EDLD 5363 Photo Story

This week, I was tasked to create a photo story using a software I was unfamiliar with. I used Photo Story 3 for Windows for the first time, and I found it remarkably easy to put together. About a month ago a colleague of mine passed away, and at the viewing they had a photo slideshow of his life and his family, and I was impressed at how it came together. Although it I still think the subject material was moving, I am no longer impressed with the actual creation of the slideshow, as Photo Story makes it so easy to put something together that looks professionally done.

I did read the information on how to create a photo story, but, like any good youngish man, I did not read the manual on how to work the software. Thankfully, it was extremely straightforward. The most difficult aspect was actually deciding what to make a photo story of. Although I own a digital camera, I typically only use the camera on my iPhone, and I only take pictures of my dogs as they are more photogenic than me. My first thought was to make my digital story about my dogs, but after Monday's video conference, I thought I should probably do one that was more about me. My second option was to take photos from online and piecemeal together a story on how I became a teacher. After talking with my partner, Ray, I decided to go ahead and make the photo story about my dogs as they are an important part of my life.

I hope you enjoy it should you watch it.

The link to the video is http://youtu.be/hutj2e_uAJE.